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- Burnout and Suicidal Behaviours in Health Professionals in Portugal: The Moderating Effect of Self-EsteemPublication . Jesus, Alexandra de; Pitacho, Liliana; Moreira, AnaThe main objective of this study was to investigate the effect of burnout on suicidal behaviours and the mediating effect of self-esteem in this relationship. A total of 1172 healthcare professionals working in Portugal’s private and public sector organisations participated in this study. The results indicate a high level of burnout among these professionals and that exhaustion (β = 0.16; p < 0.001) and disengagement (β = 0.24; p < 0.001) positively and significantly affect suicidal behaviours. In turn, self-esteem has a significant and negative effect (β = −0.51; p < 0.001) on suicidal behaviours. Self-esteem moderates the relationship between disengagement and suicidal behaviours (B = −0.12; p < 0.001) and the relationship between exhaustion and suicidal behaviours (B = −0.11; p < 0.001), representing an essential variable for future lines of research, namely on the role of self-esteem in preventing burnout and suicidal behaviours in professionals from other professional areas.
- Employees’ conflict management in the hospitality industry. An empirical study on the importance of sociodemographic variablesPublication . Cordeiro, João Pedro; Pitacho, LilianaThis research focuses on the analysis of conflict management styles from a constructive perspective. Its main objective is to identify and reflect on the styles of conflict management in the hospitality industry in Portugal. The specific objective is to analyze the relationship between conflict management styles and sociodemographic variables among employees in Portuguese hotel units. The sample consists of 798 employees, mainly male, between 30 and 34 years old, with secondary school education, who are mostly operating staff or undifferentiated employees, and with middle levels of seniority in the organization. The results suggest that employees use different strategies to manage organizational conflicts, with an emphasis on compromising and integrating styles. At the same time, conflict management styles are differently determined by certain sociodemographic variables of the employees. This research helps in the design and implementation of constructive conflict management strategies for managers, which contribute to the formulation of management systems focused on behaviors and attitudes of professionals in the context of the hotel sector.
- From Passion to Abyss: The Mental Health of Athletes during COVID-19 LockdownPublication . Pitacho, Liliana; da Palma, Patrícia Jardim; Miguel Alves Ribeiro Correia, Pedro; Cordeiro, João PedroThe outbreak and pandemic of COVID-19 forced people into extreme isolation and social distancing, with significant limitations on various activity sectors, including sports. This study aimed to assess the psychological health status of athletes during sports lockdown. Additionally, we intend to verify the mediating role of sleep disorders in stress perception and subjective happiness. Our sample was composed of 1492 Portuguese athletes from eight different team sports. During sports lockdown, athletes were found to have high stress levels and low subjective happiness levels and experience sleep disorders. Finally, these results conclude that sports lockdowns harm athletes’ psychological health and well-being. Pay cuts to athletes are an extra stress factor that exacerbate these adverse effects on psychological health. Finally, sleep is a mediator variable between stress perception and subjective happiness levels. This study’s significant contributions, limitations, and future directions are discussed in the conclusion.
- Impacto da redução de recompensas no comportamento dos colaboradores: E quando o trabalho é um chamamento?Publication . Pitacho, Liliana; Palma, Patrícia; Correia, PedroNo cenário global de severa crise económica e financeira, governos e empresas enfrentam um período de grande austeridade o que os conduziu como nunca a elevados cortes dos custos de trabalho, com destaque para o corte e redução das recompensas dos colaboradores. Este artigo apresenta, então, um modelo concetual que teoriza acerca da orientação para o trabalho (Emprego, Carreira e Chamamento) enquanto variável moderadora da relação entre o corte ou redução das recompensas e o comportamento dos colaboradores, nomeadamente, no que ao desempenho e intenção de saída diz respeito. Este modelo acarreta tanto implicações teóricas como práticas, quer para a compreensão do comportamento organizacional, quer para as práticas de gestão de recursos humanos, especialmente, para a gestão das recompensas.
- Occupational Stress and Sleep Among Teachers: What is The Effective-Ness of A Programme to Reduce Occupational Stress Using Mindfulness?Publication . Inácio, Soraia; Pitacho, Liliana; Moreira, Ana; Tomás, CarlaIn Portugal, teachers are subjected to numerous sources of pressure, which leads us to be a country with very high levels of occupational stress in this professional group. Occupational stress influences many aspects of the individual’s life, both personally and professionally, and mindfulness programmes have proved to be highly effective in reducing these symptoms, both personally and in the teaching profession, since there are studies that point to an improvement in the student-teacher relationship, with subsequent positive changes in the student’s academic performance. To bring some innovation to the programme to be applied in this study, physiological sleep measurement was added to the Stress and Mindfulness programmes, as this variable is related to stress, insofar as it is assumed that the higher the levels of stress, the lower the quality of sleep. The present research aims to develop a mindfulness programme to be applied to a group of teachers intending to reduce occupational stress and try to understand to what extent occupational stress levels influence the quality and perception of teachers’ sleep quality. The results obtained indicate that occupational stress had a significant and negative effect on the quality of sleep at the first moment of assessment, namely in the overwork dimension, and that, after the application of the programme, the participating teachers showed lower levels of occupational stress, namely in the bureaucratic work, students’ motivation, overwork, and students’ indiscipline dimensions. Concerning the quality of sleep, the results did not show significant statistical differences; however, it was possible to identify differences in sleep quality between the assessment moments.
- Perceived Organizational Culture and Turnover Intentions: The Serial Mediating Effect of Perceived Organizational Support and Job InsecurityPublication . Salvador, Mónica; Moreira, Ana; Pitacho, LilianaThis study aims to analyze the relationship between perceived organizational culture (POC) and turnover intentions (TI) and if this relationship is mediated by perceived organizational support (POS) and job insecurity (JI). For this purpose, the following hypotheses were formulated: (1) POC (support, goals, innovation, and rules) has a negative and significant relationship with TI; (2) POC (support, goals, innovation, and rules) has a positive and significant relationship with POS (affective and cognitive); (3) POS (affective and cognitive) has a negative and significant relationship with TI; (4) POS (affective and cognitive) has a negative and significant relationship with JI; (5) JI has a positive and significant relationship with TI; and (6) POS (affective and cognitive) and JI both represent a serial indirect effect in the relationship between POC (support, goals, innovation and rules) and the TI. This study’s sample includes 661 participants working in organizations based in Portugal. The results indicate that only the perception of supportive and goal culture has a negative and significant association with TI; POC has a positive and significant association with POS; POS has a negative and significant association with JI and TI; JI has a positive and significant association with TI; affective POS and JI have a serial mediation effect in the relationship between supportive and goal POC and TI; cognitive POS and JI have a serial mediation effect in the relationship between goal POC and TI
- The Conceptual Model of Role Stress and Job Burnout in Judges: The Moderating Role of Career CallingPublication . Pereira, Sandra Patrícia Marques; Miguel Alves Ribeiro Correia, Pedro; Da Palma, Patrícia Jardim; Pitacho, Liliana; Castagna Lunardi, FabrícioJudges are the central actors in the organization and functioning of the judicial system. Concerns about work efficiency, driven by the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice, led countries to adopt a set of reforms in line with private sector ideals applied to the public field to better manage their financial and human resources. In the last decades, the Portuguese judicial system has undergone a reform based on New Public Management principles by adopting the new Law on the Organization of the Judiciary System (LOSJ), significantly altering judges’ duties, who beyond their traditional role of applying the law, perform the additional role of court-of-law judge-manager. The objective of this study is to explore the influence of role conflict and role ambiguity in occupational burnout among judges and to analyze the influence of calling orientation as a moderating variable, so as to present a conceptual model of role-stress management among the judiciary. Theoretically, this work contributes to the literature on role-stress management through its introduction of calling moderation, as well as to the literature on the positive influence of calling on burnout. In terms of its practical implications, the work contributes to a reconsideration of the current organizational structure of judicial work.
- The Relationship between Career Calling and Workaholism: The Mediating Role of Career OrientationPublication . Pitacho, Liliana; Cordeiro, João PedroThe difference between having workers involved in their work, on the one hand, or too exhausted to contribute, on the other, can be tenuous and compromise work orientation. The positive outcomes of career calling (a deep purpose and meaningfulness in work characterized by vigor, dedication, and absorption) to organizations are clear, namely the relationship of career calling with high levels of commitment and engagement. However, the dark side of career calling remains a less explored point. The main purpose of this study analyzes this side of career calling and explores the relationship between sense of work purpose—perceived career calling—and workaholism. The sample consists of 743 Portuguese employees from different sectors of activity. The main hypothesis intends to test the presence of career orientation as a mechanism to explain the ambiguity of career calling outcomes, that is, the mediating effect of career orientation on the relationship between career calling and workaholism. The results showed that the workers’ career orientation helps to explain this relationship. Career orientation partially mediated the relation between career calling and the positive dimension of workaholism, involvement and enjoyment, and completely mediated the relation between career calling and negative dimensions of workaholism, drive. These results allow us to reflect on career calling, and how organizations manage workforce efforts to avoid work addiction and the negative consequences that compromise workforce sustainability. Career calling was looked at as an element of a mixed profile work orientation, rather than not just as a pure work orientation. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
- Why Do People Work? An Empirical Test of Hybrid Work OrientationsPublication . Pitacho, Liliana; da Palma, Patrícia Jardim; Miguel Alves Ribeiro Correia, Pedro; Lopes, Miguel PereiraThe present study analyzed whether one’s work orientation can be organized into work orientation profiles beyond the three pure orientations of job, career, and calling. We tested the existence of these hybrid work orientations in a sample of 959 adults aged from 18 to 71 years old (M = 40.61, SD = 9.54). A cluster analysis showed that the best result consisted of four profiles: “Career-Calling”, “Career-Job”, “Pure Job”, and “Indifference”. Theoretical and practical implications of profile approach to the study of work orientations are discussed at the end.